26.According to the author, the great outburst of major inventions in early America was in a large part due to 　　.
　　enthusiastic workers　
　　elementary schools　
　　special way of thinking　
　　the attractive premium system　
27.It is implied that adaptiveness and inventiveness of the early American mechanics 　　.
　　shed light on disciplined school management　
　　nefited a lot from their mathematical knowledge　
　　was brought about by privileged home training　
　　owed a lot to the technological development　
28.A technologist can be compared to an artist because 　　.
　　they both use various instruments　
　　they are both winners of awards　
　　they both abandon verbal description　
　　ey are both experts in spatial thinking　
29.What does "emulation", the American characteristic, refer to?
　　Good education.　
　　Non-verbal thinking.　
　　Spatial thinking.　
　　iendly but competitive striving for fame and excellence.　
30.The best title for this passage might be 　　.
　　Ways of Thinking　
　　Effective Schooling　
　　ventive Mind　
　　Outpouring of Inventions　

Passage3
　　I am an amateur, a man who does a thing because he loves doing it. The amateur's lot is not an easy one in a country run by antiamatures: experts, specialists, and perfectionists. They call us dabblers (涉猎者) because we can't do a thing well.
　　They are wrong. The truth is, we are so crazy about doing a thing that we don't mind doing it badly. What makes us really suspect to all true — blood, regular nonamatures is that we practice a particular pursuit without any hope of financial reward. We don't want to improve our standard of living. We want to improve our lives.
　　Time was when gifted dabblers pioneered new thought and stimulated discovery. Think of Leonardo da Vinci, amateur physicist and a mature builder. Goethe, diligent mathematician and statesman. Voltaire, Humboldt, Edison, Thoreau, Ford — fellow amateurs with brilliant ideas, men of universal rather than specialized thinking. But today universality is unpopular, individualism is dangerous, nonconformism is suspect. The amateur, a man of strong personality, an individualist and nonconformist (不合规范者), must not be taken seriously. Experts tell you everything right down the line — how to live, how to be adjusted, what to eat, where to go. If you don't happen to be an expert of sorts, you're a "dope" — an amateur.
31.The phrase that best expresses the ideas of the passage is 　　.
　　working without pay　
　　 praise of amateurs　
　　the century of the expert　
　　the expert's superiority over the amateur　
32.A characteristic of the amateur is that 　　.
　　he is limited in talent　
　　 has great enthusiasm　
　　he enjoys his ordered life　
　　he distrusts other amateurs　
33.According to the passage, today amateurism 　　.
　　 greatly criticized　
　　thrives in cities　
　　has little competition from nonamatures